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A Truth is the subjective development of that which is at once both new and universal. New: that which is unforeseen by the order of creation. Universal: that which can interest, rightly, every human individual, according to his pure humanity.

Alain Badiou

A Truth is the subjective development of that which is at once both new and universal. New: that which is unforeseen by the order of creation. Universal: that which can interest, rightly, every human individual, according to his pure humanity.
ALAIN BADIOU

Both Development New Subjective Truth Universal
Liberal capitalism is not at all the Good of humanity. Quite the contrary; it is the vehicle of savage, destructive nihilism.
ALAIN BADIOU

All Capitalism Good Humanity Liberal
For a politics of emancipation, the enemy that is to be feared most is not repression at the hands of the established order. It is the interiority of nihilism, and the unbounded cruelty that can come with its emptiness.
ALAIN BADIOU

Emancipation Enemy Establish Fear Hand Most Order Politics Repression
Evil is the interruption of a truth by the pressure of particular or individual interests.
ALAIN BADIOU

Evil Individual Interest Interruption Particular Pressure Truth
What kind of world does one see when one experiences it from the point of view of two and not one?
ALAIN BADIOU

Does Express Kind One Point Two View World
What is the world like when it is experienced, developed and lived from the point of view of difference and not identity? That is what I believe love to be.
ALAIN BADIOU

Believe Develop Difference Experience Identity Live Love Point World
I am surprised to see that today everything that does not amount to surrender pure and simple to generalized capitalism.
ALAIN BADIOU

Around Capitalism Everything Generalize Simple Surenderpure Surprise Today
To believe that the intolerable crime is to burn a few cars and rob some shops, whereas to kill a young man is trivial, is typically in keeping with what Marx regarded as the principal alienation of capitalism: the primacy of things over existence, of commodities over life and machines over workers
ALAIN BADIOU

Believe Burn Car Crime Intolerable Rob Shop Some
In my view, only those who have had the courage to work through Lacan’s anti-philosophy without faltering deserve to be called ‘contemporary philosophers’.
ALAIN BADIOU

Courage Deserve Falter Only Philosophy Through View Work
Art attests to what is inhuman in man.
ALAIN BADIOU

Art Atheist Inhuman Main
The cinema is a place of intrinsic indiscernibility between art and non-art.
ALAIN BADIOU

Art Between Cinema Intrinsic Place
The aesthetic process decentres the specular relation with which ideology perpetuates its closed infinity.
ALAIN BADIOU

Aesthetic Close Explain Infinity Perpetuate Process Relation
I feel really assured by the fact that the women I have loved I have loved for always.
ALAIN BADIOU

Always Assure Fact Feel Love Women
Quite the contrary; it is the vehicle of savage, destructive nihilism.
ALAIN BADIOU

Contrary Destructive Nihilism Quite Savage Vehicle
But more subtly the written press, are quite spectacular powers of unreason and ignorance.
ALAIN BADIOU

But Ignorance More Power Press Quite Spectator Subtly Unreason Written
We have the riots we deserve.
ALAIN BADIOU

Deserve Riot We

A Truth is the subjective development of that which is at once both new and universal. New: that which is unforeseen by the order of creation. Universal: that which can interest, rightly, every human individual, according to his pure humanity.

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A Truth is the subjective development of that which is at once both new and universal. New: that which is unforeseen by the order of creation. Universal: that which can interest, rightly, every human individual, according to his pure humanity.

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